{"type":"article","show_header_text":true,"header":"ARTICLES ABOUT STRAUSS ZELNICK","query":"(per=\"ZELNICK, STRAUSS\") and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"List\" and tom!=\"Paid Death Notice\" and dsk!=\"Society\"","search_query":"(persons:\"ZELNICK, STRAUSS\") AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\" AND -type_of_material:\"Paid Death Notice\" AND -news_desk:\"Society\"","num_search_articles":"10","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":true,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"ZELNICK, STRAUSS","more_on_header":"MORE ON STRAUSS ZELNICK AND:","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

The investor Carl C. Icahn received partial backing from Institutional Shareholder Services for his attempt to appoint directors to the board of Blockbuster. Shareholder Services said that Blockbuster investors should appoint Mr. Icahn's nominees,...

The financier Carl C. Icahn nominated himself and two other people yesterday to the board of Blockbuster, the video rental chain, where he is the largest shareholder. Mr. Icahn, 69, nominated a music executive, Strauss Zelnick, and a former executive...

FOR many retiring C.E.O.'s, letting go does not come easily. For a self-made, iron-willed entrepreneur like Lillian Vernon, who shaped a catalog company starting with a personally monogrammed belt and purse into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with...

Strauss Zelnick has run a worldwide music company, a video gaming start-up, and a movie studio. But where he once cut deals with Whitney Houston and rolled out ''Home Alone,'' Mr. Zelnick is now spending his days worrying over the next Lillian Vernon...

January 12, 2004, Monday

LILLIAN VERNON seems in no mood to discuss garden gnomes. The conversation never mellows to the point of gnomes, listed as $29.98 and weather resistant in her recent Favorites catalog. (It got close, though.) Late Friday afternoon, Ms. Vernon, the...